I have been missing a convenient tool for Google search results scraping ever since Google redesigned the output screen. The tool’s need arose from Google switching the output format to scrolling with “more results” from the previous convenient page-by-page view. The change broke the beloved Instant Data Scraper. Julia Tverskaya is our long-term Partner, Sourcer, Recruiter, and a good friend. …
Have Skills, LinkedIn?
LinkedIn tells us we are moving toward skills-based hiring and stresses the updated skills search that is smart about the content of members’ profiles and can guess skills. Is that so? Please review LinkedIn Wants Me to Pack Groceries and Learn Fluoroscopy if you haven’t. It’s a (sad) joke. LinkedIn Engineering observes that Recruiters find and contact only a small …
AI Can Search But Not Source: More On AI-Search-Engine Integration
At the beginning of this AI wave, services popped up that offered search engines and AI “integration,” like this: There is no integration here other than combining results on the same screen. However, the latest developments in search-the-web-plus-AI tools are promising. It was welcome news that Bing is back with ChatGPT and the GPT-4 data has been updated to 2023. …
Creating Batch Match GPT
GPTs are fascinating and promising. I want to share my experience creating one. I regularly use SalesQL batch import of LinkedIn profiles and get a rich output where each record has detailed info about the members. The other two systems I use for the rich output are SeekOut and ContactOut. These outputs have much more detail than export from LinkedIn …
Bing Orchestrator Helps Search and LLMs Talk
Search engines and LLMs work on very different principles. Tech companies have tried to marry the two, but integration is challenging. I have just watched this video (recommended!) about Bing that sheds quite a bit of light on how the search engine and LLM integration works in Bing. The pic above is from the video and shows a diagram of …
Combining AI and Web Search in Talent Sourcing: Proceed with Caution
GPTs is wonderful AI news. Expect even more changes! Full disclosure: I did not write or edit the post in italics below. I created a GPT, sent it to read this blog, and then asked to write a post related to AI and talent sourcing. The GPT called itself “Blog Composer,” provided me with the picture above and wrote a …
LinkedIn Wants Me to Pack Groceries and Learn Fluoroscopy
Image by #Midjourney (which cannot write yet) LinkedIn is going to lead its members in finding relevant jobs. I want to show you what I received yesterday from LinkedIn in that regard. It would be hilarious if it weren’t so sad! Here is my profile – https://www.linkedin.com/in/irinashamaeva. Recently I have been into AI drawing with Midjourney as a hobby, and …
You Are Missing Seniority, LinkedIn
We have learned some unexpected things about searching for LinkedIn members by Company, Company Size, and Type. It’s good to know what to do about those. Let’s continue examining LinkedIn filters. Consider this search in LinkedIn Recruiter using operators: Current Job Title = director NOT (seniority:1 OR seniority:2 OR seniority:3 OR seniority:4 OR seniority:5 OR seniority:6 OR seniority:7 OR seniority:8 …
Get Back More Google Results By Not Using More
image created with DALL-E Did you realize that since Google had replaced the convenient multi-page display with the "More results" button, its users have encountered fewer results? If previously we got up to ~300-450 results, now, by pressing the "More" button until there is nothing left, gets us no more than 130-140. (Searching using quotes and operators, or Verbatim does ...
LinkedIn’s Members and Companies Disconnect
Sourcing Summit Europe-2023 was awesome in every way – just look at all the reports on #sosueu on LinkedIn. It’s hard to describe how wonderful the event feels; you must go there! My presentation was called “Unscrambling LinkedIn for More Efficient Sourcing.” As I was preparing the slides, I ran into several problems with LinkedIn Recruiter search, and I want …